Hi, I would suggest as first step to use stand-alone oVirt engine instead of hosted.
On 12 Feb 2026, at 17:05, Ethan Provensen via Users <users@ovirt.org> wrote:
For the last 3-4 months, I have been trying to install oVirt on 3 bare metal servers with 1 SAN on an air-gapped network (no internet connection). I have failed with every attempt. I first determined what repositories I needed to upload to my air-gapped network to my Apache server, so the 3 bare metal servers could get the needed RPMs to install oVirt. I uploaded the following repositories from the internet: copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ovirt:ovirt-master-snapshot ovirt-appliance-master-snapshot ovirt-master-centos-stream-ceph-pacific-testing ovirt-master-centos-stream-gluster10-testing ovirt-master-centos-stream-nfv-openvswitch2-testing ovirt-master-centos-stream-openstack-yoga-testing ovirt-master-centos-stream-opstools-collectd5-testing ovirt-master-centos-stream-ovirt45-testing ovirt-node-master-snapshot I first tried to install a oVirt self-hosted engine architecture on 1 server running Alma 9, but I ran into multiple dead ends with errors that I did not understand. My second attempt was to refresh the 1 Alma 9 server and install the oVirt CentOS9 node ISO instead on the 1 server. Again, I ran into multiple errors and did not understand the error messages. Recently, the oVirt Blog recommended we stopped using the oVirt CentOS9 node ISO for oVirt v4.5.7, so I went back on tried to install oVirt on Alma 9, and again I ran into multiple errors. I do not know what I am doing wrong. I have followed all the directions and Googled all the error messages I received, and still don't understand any of it. Now I am wondering if it's even possible to install oVirt on an server that doesn't have a DHCP connection to the internet. The last time I tried to create the "HostedEngineLocal" virtual machine on the server, I noticed the virtual machine creation relied on an internet connection and that is why the Hosted Engine setup failed everytime. Am I wrong? What am I doing wrong? Can someone help? _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/JXNPYVQF7IJKPG...